Hairpin



C. REIMANN HAIRPIN Filed Aug. 22. 1927 W INVENTOR iMbw n01 BY WM WWW v ATTORNEY Patented May 15, 1928.

UNITED STATES means CARL REIMANN, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

HAIRPIN.

Application filed August 22, 1927. Serial No. 214,605.

This. invention relates to hair pins and has for its object to construct a hair pin which will not drop out from the hair.

I accomplish this object by making the hair pin from a piece of wire which is bent into the form of a fork and made non-resilient by heating the knee portion thereof. The two branches of the fork are angularly bent so that normally while their upper parts will diverge their lower parts will converge but remain separated at their free ends. These converging parts .of said branches when the hair pin is stuck into the hair and after compressing the same are adapted to cross one another so as to form a closed loop whereby the hair pin will be retained in position by the hair caught'bctween its branches.

1n the accompanying drawing Figs. 1 and 2 are elevations of my hair pin in normal and in operative conditions respectively.

The hair pin 10 is made of wire bent upon itself to form a fork whose knee portion 11 by heating has been made non-resilient and '25 the branches 12, 13 at their lower partshave inwardly directed bends 14. Normally, i. e. when the hair pin is not in use, the branches 12, 13 are adapted to diverge so that the lower converging parts 14: thereof will be separated as shown in Fig. 1. When the hair pin is stuck into the hair and the branches 12 and 13 are slightly pressed togetherthe parts 14; will be caused to cross one another as shown in Fig. 2. Thereby the hair pin will be closed to form a loop engaging around the hair caught between the two branches and be prevented from dropping out.

What I claim is A hair pin of non-resiliei1t wire bent into a fork whose branches are angularly bent so that normally the upper or rear parts thereof diverge and the lower or forward parts thereof converge and are separated at their free ends, butare adapted to close when said branches are pressed together to form a closed loop around the hair caught therebetween.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

CARL REIMANN. 

